everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Absolutely Fantastic

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

This should be a comedy? A horror? Or they wanted to be a sexy movie, piled with innumerable girls only in swimsuits? I like wacky comedies, when they are successful. Here we got just a bunch of so-called actors who are flocking into each other in a castle inhabited by awkward monsters, including a ghost-woman, a gorilla and many many morons. They are just fooling scrolling back and forth, totally pointless. Nancy Sinatra's pathetic, like everyone else. Poor Boris Karloff, he was impressive as Frankenstein. Neither the songs in the film don't save anything because they are awful too. Piccola Pupa, who was full of life, singing Italian songs in the '60s, present in a scene, does not save anything. If you watch this, the only thing you want is to finish faster.

In the wake of the breakup of the monopoly Hollywood had over production, distribution, and exhibition in the late 1940s, AIP pioneered in youth and new identity oriented films throughout the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. AIP films tended to mine certain genres and themes--horror (where they pushed the envelope), the youth beach film, the youth oriented motorcycle film, topical concerns to the youth of the 1960s and 1970s (drugs, freedom), the countercultural gangster film, sexploitation, blaxploitation. Renowned independent Roger Corman made several films for AIP during these years."The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini" is a rather typical AIP film beach film though this time without the beach. There's the women in bikinis, the men in swimsuits, the pop stars singing pop songs, the genre blending, the presence of Eric von Zipper (Harvey Lembeck) and the Rats, the smattering of stars from the classic Hollywood era, and even a bit of reflexivity (Brechtianism? modernism? postmodernism? parody? breaking the fourth wall?).

I have a special affection for this little trifle. I saw it at our post theater twice when I was stationed at Fort Hood, Texas. It was a time when we were killing time, just waiting to be discharged, and this film conjures up a time of innocence when I was dying to re-start my civilian life. But most of all, I was (and still am) a tremendous fan of Miss Nancy Sinatra, especially all through my Army days, and it was thrilling fun to go see her movies at the post theater. She also did "The Wild Angels" and "The Last of the Secret Agents." All the other commentators are right. No classic, but mindless, harmless fun ! Oh, Nancy ! We were so young, and it was a different world !

Ridiculous movie--just the title should tell you something. It's something or other about a ghost (in a bikini of course) trying to revive her dead boyfriend...or make him younger...or something silly. He's played by Boris Karloff who watches the movie from his crypt through a crystal ball. Poor Boris...he was reduced to THIS???? Basically this was the last gasp for the "Beach Party" movies. They were loosing money so they transferred the action to a "haunted" house and some dumb plot about a fortune being hidden. This is chockful of stupid jokes, bad songs, LOUSY acting and some "teenagers" in their 20s who should not be seen with only a skimpy bathing suit.It might be fun if you're in a REALLY silly frame of mind--otherwise this is truly an abomination. Not even bad/good--just BAD!!! Kids might go for it.